AWS News Blog

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, December 8 We announced that you can now Delete all Messages in an Amazon SQS Queue. We announced an AWS OpsWorks Update with Support for Existing EC2 Instances and On-Premises Servers. The AWS Mobile Development Blog invited you to Learn More About AWS […]

Amazon Glacier is a secure and durable storage service for data archiving and backup. You can store infrequently accessed data in Glacier for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month. When you need to retrieve your data, Glacier will make it available for download within 3 to 5 hours. Today we are launching two […]

To support the growing number of Earth science researchers on AWS, we are adding two new members to the collection of Public Data Sets on AWS: CGIAR Global Circulation Models (GCM) data and imagery from the Landsat 8 satellite. If you have been a regular reader of this blog, you may recall some of our […]

My colleague Chris Barclay sent a guest post to introduce two powerful new features for AWS OpsWorks. — Jeff; New Modes for OpsWorks I have some good news for users that operate compute resources outside of AWS: you can now use AWS OpsWorks to deploy and operate applications on any server with an Internet connection […]

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, December 1 We added new AWS Customer Succcess Stories from Aon Benfield Securities (financial services), AudioCodes (VoIP infrastructure), Browan Communications (broadband products and services), Devicescape (telcom management), Goodman Group (property management), HG Data (competitive intelligence), Magisto (video creation and sharing), McCormick (international flavors), […]

My colleague Adi Krishnan wrote the following guest post to tell you about the newest addition to the Amazon Kinesis API. — Jeff; Amazon Kinesis is a fully managed service for real-time processing of streaming data at massive scale. Customers love the fact that they can put any amount of data in to a Kinesis […]

I am happy to announce that we are reducing the rates for several types of AWS data transfers, effective December 1, 2014, as follows: Outbound Data Transfer – Pricing for data transfer from AWS to the Internet is now 6% to 43% lower, depending on the Region and the amount of data transferred per month. […]

EC2’s Reserved Instance model provides you with two benefits: capacity assurance and a lower effective hourly rate in exchange for an upfront payment. After combining customer feedback with an analysis of purchasing patterns that goes back to when we first launched Reserved Instances in 2009, we have decided to simplify the model and are introducing […]